1st John 2:9-11, “Whosoever
transgresseth, and abideth not in
the doctrine of Christ,
hath not God. He that abideth in
the doctrine of Christ,
he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not
this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For
he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”
The Holy Bible is so easily misinterpreted and misunderstood. It is common
knowledge that the term “Christian” can mean many different things to
different groups of people. Likewise, the phrase “the doctrine of Christ” in
our text passage can mean a bunch of different things to different religious
groups. For example: Here is what the Mormon religious sex cult has to say
about the phrase, “the doctrine of Christ”...
The “doctrine
of Christ” is that all men everywhere must have faith in Jesus Christ,
repent of their sins, be baptized, receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, and
endure to the end. The doctrine of Christ is the only way to be saved in the
kingdom of God. It is the foundation of the Church and the central message
of its missionaries.
Clearly, the Mormon cult has this doctrine WRONG! The
doctrine of Christ doesn't include water baptism, repentance of sins,
receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit, nor enduring unto the end. None of these
things are requirements to be saved. The truth is that by getting saved, we
automatically receive the indwelling of the Holy Spirit; this is a by-product of
getting born-again, not something that we must do to be saved.
War
criminal Henry Kissinger made a profound statement: “It is not a matter of what
is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.” Said another
way, false knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance. We live in a culture of
lies in the United States. Much of what we hear from the mainstream new media is
half baked lies, misinformation and disinformation, fully intended to deceive
the public.
Sadly, some of the biggest liars in our
society nowadays are preachers. From the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, to
the Devil's misunderstanding of what it means to repent to be saved, you have
been lied to. The Devil is a master thief, liar and con artist. Jesus warned
everyone in John 10:9-10 that the Devil comes only to kill, steal and destroy
your life, and the lives of your loved ones. Satan is a beautiful liar! The
Devil always pays with counterfeit money. All of Satan's apples have worms! You
can tell when the Devil is lying, every time his lips move.
Dear friend, please don't become a partaker
of their evil deeds by helping to promote or support any preacher, church or
religious college that preaches Lordship Salvation
The Torment, Fear, Confusion
And Anxiety Caused By Lordship Salvation
John 5:39-40, “Search
the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they
which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.”
More deadly than a
mother bear robbed of her cubs is the Devil's damnable lie of Lordship
Salvation. What is Lordship Salvation? It is a deadly heresy that
teaches faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ is not enough to be saved.
In addition, a lost person is falsely told that they must turn away from
their sinful behavior, surrender their life to serve Jesus, follow
Christ no matter what the cost, commit your life to Christ, live a
changed life, et cetera.
Lordship Salvation
requires WORKS as evidence that you FAITH is genuine. So if a professed
believer in Christ doesn't live a changed life, proponents of Lordship
Salvation will conclude that the person's faith is not real and they are
still unsaved. See and hear for yourself what the heresy of Lordship
Salvation does to wreak havoc on a person's mind and soul...
The Damage of
Lordship Salvation with John MacArthur
(This Should
Make You Angry!)
This my dear reader is the sorrowful fruit of Lordship
Salvation: stress, anxiety, worry, guilt, fear, condemnation, confusion and
torment. This is what happens when you are taught to focus on the sinner
rather than the Savior; analyzing self rather than searching the Scriptures;
resting in my performance rather than His promise; looking in the mirror
rather than looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith. Hebrews
12:2, “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who
for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame,
and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.” The true Gospel
always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.
Pastor John MacArthur
horribly lies to this young woman in the preceding video, telling her:
“The way you know that you're saved is by your
desire.” —John
MacArthur
That is a lie of Satan!
Should we base the assurance of God's free gift of salvation upon the
subjective experience of sinful man; or should we base the assurance of
God's salvation upon the objective truth of God's inspired Word? Which of
these two do not change? Our human feelings can and will change from moment
to moment, but God's inspired Words will NEVER change. Matthew 5:18, “For
verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” Luke
16:17, “And it is easier for
heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.” Matthew
24:35, “Heaven
and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
We Must Keep Service
Separate From Salvation
You don't have to love
Jesus to go to Heaven, you have to trust Him as your Savior. I try to serve
and please God because I love Jesus (John 14:15); but the only reason
I am going to Heaven is because Jesus loves me, who sacrificed His
life for me on Calvary's cruel cross (John 3:16; 1st John 3:16).
When you trust Christ
as your personal Savior, you have eternal life. John 6:47, “Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.” When
you got saved God didn't take away the old carnal nature, He gave you a new
birth. He gave you His Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9; 1st Corinthians 3:16-17; 1st
John 3:24). When we sin, it is only because we are choosing to walk
in the flesh; but when we obey
God, it is because we chose to walk
in the Spirit (Galatians 5:25). At
any given time a believer can choose to walk
in the Spirit (i.e.,
if we yield in obedience as the Holy Spirit teaches, guides, comforts,
rebukes and leads us with the inspired Holy Bible). The unsaved person (lost
man) doesn't have the Holy Spirit. No lost person has ever possessed the
Holy Spirit of God! And no child of God lacks the Holy Spirit.
You can be saved and
not love God. You can be saved and not serve Christ. You can be saved by
just believing the Gospel. You don't make Jesus the Lord, HE IS LORD!!!
Thank God that going to Heaven is not dependent upon our turning away from
sins and our performance, or else we'd ALL be going to Hell someday!!! The
ONLY thing that makes me (and you if you are a born again child of God), any
more righteous than mass-murderer and cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, is the
precious blood of Jesus! The ONLY thing that makes me any more righteous
than the worst sinner on planet earth is the precious blood of Jesus that
washed away all my sins (1st John 1:7; Revelation 1:5; 1st Peter 1:18-19). Colossians
1:14, “In
whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:” (By
the way, nearly all of the Devil's modern Bible perversions butcher this
verse, removing, “THE BLOOD.”)
The great fear and
confusion caused by Lordship Salvation is because preachers fail to SEPARATE
service from salvation. They fail to separate personal sanctification
within from justification without. They fail to keep separate discipleship
from sonship. John 1:12-13, “But as many as
received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to
them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the
will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
Many Bible students
make the mistake of citing Bible references from the Gospels of Matthew,
Mark and Luke to support the heresy of Lordship Salvation. For example: Luke
14:27, “And
whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my
disciple.” Luke
14:33, “So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he
hath, he cannot be my disciple.” False prophet Billy Graham
(1918-2018) often quoted these passages out of context to bolster up his
straw man heresy of Lordship Salvation.
One of my favorite
Bible preachers is Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan (1628-1688),
because he clearly understood the theological concept of God's imputed
righteousness, which is BY FAITH ALONE...
“If you do not put a difference between justification
wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the
Spirit of Christ within, you are not able to divide the Word aright; but
contrariwise, you corrupt the Word of God, and cast stumbling blocks
before the people.” —John Bunyan (1628-1688)
John Bunyan nailed it!
Yes, that is exactly what is wrong with Lordship Salvation, it mixes and
confuses the lines between sanctification and justification, obscuring the
Gospel and perverting God's grace. Oh, dear reader, please reject the
Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, for it is “another
gospel” accursed
by God (Galatians 1:6-9; 2nd Corinthians 11:3-4, 13-15).
The Holy Bible is so easily misinterpreted and misunderstood. It is common
knowledge that the term “Christian” can mean many different things to
different groups of people. Likewise, the phrase “the doctrine of Christ” in
our text passage can mean a bunch of different things to different religious
groups. For example: Here is what the Mormon religious sex cult has to say
about the phrase, “the doctrine of Christ”...
War
criminal Henry Kissinger made a profound statement: “It is not a matter of what
is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.” Said another
way, false knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance. We live in a culture of
lies in the United States. Much of what we hear from the mainstream new media is
half baked lies, misinformation and disinformation, fully intended to deceive
the public.